Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe recently sat down with\u00a0the President of Bates College Clayton Spencer (right) for an in-depth interview.<\/p><\/div>\n
In 1989, Spencer served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston, prosecuting criminal cases.\u00a0 While at Yale Law School, Spencer was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, winner of the Moot Court competition and chair of the Public Interest Council.<\/p>\n
In 1993 she became chief education counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources under Senator Edward Kennedy.\u00a0 She managed the committee\u2019s education staff and directed the legislative process for education legislation and policy, including federal student aid, science and research policy, the education budget and technology in education.\u00a0 Senator Kennedy was a tremendous influence for Spencer, \u201cHe was hugely progressive and relentless in pursuing his goals,\u201d Spencer said.\u00a0 Spencer described herself\u00a0as\u00a0a higher education junkie, not a Kennedy groupie, when speaking\u00a0with Stevoe about her experience working with Senator Kennedy.<\/p>\n
She left government in 1997 and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she served first as associate vice president and then vice president for policy at Harvard.\u00a0 At Harvard, Spencer was a key player in financial aid reform.\u00a0 Her steadfast goal was to make a Harvard education affordable to all deserving students, no matter their financial status.<\/p>\n
Spencer stayed at Harvard until her appointment as president of Bates College in October 2012.\u00a0 Clayton Spencer was elected by the Bates College Board of Trustees as the eighth president of Bates on Dec. 3, 2011.\u00a0 She took office July 1, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, Steve Woods, recently sat down with the President of Bates College Clayton Spencer. The two discussed the critical importance of financial aid reform and how we need to make education accessible for all students. Spencer also talked about how her secret life’s mission was to move to Maine and how as a child she fell in love with “Little Women” and knew she wanted to come to Maine. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}